Main entry:

Ringwalt, J. Luther (John Luther), editor.

Title & Author:

American encyclopædia of printing / edited by J. Luther Ringwalt.

Publication:

Philadelphia : Menamin & Ringwalt, 517 Minor Street. : J.B. Lippincott & Co., 715 Market St., 1871.

Description:

xv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 18-512 pages, 21 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles ; 28 cm

Notes:
Text printed in two columns.
Includes index.
Includes an early specimen of raised type printing intended to assist blind people. Plate with raised printing is inserted following page 64.
Contemporary publishers' binding; rust/brown sand grain pictorial cloth; blocked in gold and blind; bevelled edge boards; brown surface coated endpapers.
E8W

Subject:

Printing Dictionaries.
Printing
technology.
Imprimerie.

Form/genre:

Dictionary
Encyclopedia
Printed books United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia 19th century Specimens.
lithographs.
chromolithographs.
line blocks.
dictionaries.
encyclopedias.
Lithographs
Encyclopedias
Dictionaries
Chromolithographs.
Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)
Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding)
Bevelled edge boards (Binding)
Blocked bindings (Binding)
Gold blocked bindings (Binding)
Presentation inscriptions (Provenance) United States 19th century Specimens.
Lithographies.
Chromolithographies.
Dictionnaires.
Encyclopédies.

Added entries:

United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

American encyclopedia of printing

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 85159
Call No.: PO14147 Z118 REF; ID:85-B1189
Status: Available